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Objects in motion tend to stay that way. |
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You can't waste the whole damn day loving what you need to cast away. |
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Case in point, just yesterday |
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I found a suitcase full of love letters floating down a cool brown river. |
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Unsigned and undelivered, they set my mind to wandering as to the history of the unknown writer. |
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Did she marry, did she run, was she old, was she young? |
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Was her heart undone by the cruel business of loving? |
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These objects in motion. |
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These objects in motion. |
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Objects in motion tend to stay that way... or so |
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I learned on the riverbank just yesterday. |
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For shortly thereafter |
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I beheld as if in a dream the body of a young girl adrift beneath the surface of the cool brown water. |
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My friends so unnerved was |
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I by this cruel apparition that |
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I let loose of that suitcase and it tumbled right back in the river. |
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Then spellbound |
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I watched as a halo of love letters formed a circle on the surface of the water right over her body and drifted away. |
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These objects in motion. |
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These objects in motion. |
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Objects in motion tend to stay that way. |
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You can't waste the whole damn day loving what you need to cast away. |
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For from the flame of love comes the cinder of regret. |
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Sometimes the thing you cling to most is the thing you'd best forget. |
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These objects in motion. |
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These objects in motion. |